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What is the context of Psalm 96? 

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Psalm 88 helps people come to terms with emotions in times of distress in psychological terms (Kubler-Ross model) but the psalm has a purpose aside from twentieth-century psychology, bringing the honest expression of emotion before God, giving permission to rant at God within a culture of praise and adoration.
It is not simply the antiquity of the psalm, however, which has created such interest.
Like its predecessor, this commentary’s strength lies in its close attention to linguistic detail, iconography, and, perhaps most groundbreaking, the wider literary and theological contexts of each psalm.
It argues that Psalm 120 is a literary composition in which the thanksgiving and lament are deliberately juxtaposed, and in this sequence, to express a sense of the tragic.
In light of recent scholarship, this paper argues that Paul’s apparent misapplication of the psalm is resolved by a proper recognition of the psalm’s typological framework.
It is argued that a contextual and intertextual reading of Psalm 118 will act as a counterbalance to arbitrary decisions on the interpretation of the psalm.
This article challenges the common understanding of Psalm 23 as being the song of an individual faithful Israelite.
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Finally the psalm can be understood as part of the theology and coherence of Book V (107-150) of the Psalter.
The psalm belongs together with Psalm 24; these two psalms may well have formed part of a liturgy going back to David's reign.
It argues that Psalm 19 represents a sapiential exegesis of Psalm 119.